Help! The toddler has messed up my InDesign settings!

Running InDesign CS on a newer iMac, and our little one somehow got in front of the keyboard and went wild while wife had the app. running. After cleaning up the desktop mess, I've discovered that InDesign is really messed up. Tool Bar is gone, and none of the tool palettes found under the Window menu are visible. I tried a software reinstallation but to no avail. Could it be as simple as throwing out the InDesign preferences, then re-starting? To compound the mess, I am having no luck in locating where these prefs are hiding in my computer's system folder. Any/all suggestions are much appreciated!

I'm glad you got it sorted but I'd like to bring something to you attention.
CS is totally unsupported on Leopard and Intel machines add another level of complexity. CS is the earliest version of Creative Suite eligible for upgrade pricing and if the current policy holds you will be ineligible for upgrade pricing when CS5 ships. That's going to be one very expensive decision to make.
You should give careful thought to upgrading to CS4 now while you can. For $799 you get all new versions of ID, PS, Illy, DW, FW, FL and Acrobat Pro. http://bit.ly/aoqQSB. I know that's not cheap but if you wait you'll be looking at closer to $1,800.
I'm bringing this up because invariably when new versions come out we see a lot of very unhappy people who were unaware that Adobe changed to tiered upgrade pricing and are shocked to learn that they can't upgrade anymore.
Bob

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